On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Jean Delvare wrote:
It is certainly true that as a particular release nears EOL, that kernel is quite dated. In particular, there are a number of devices that are not supported, which forces the users to use work-arounds such as building their own kernels, or installing compat-wireless. I feel we should be able to do better.
Stable kernel branches aren't meant for hardware enablement, so doesn't help either way.
Well, there are actually commits flowing into -stable which are pure hardware enablement -- device ID additions. Now, that is not typically enough for wireless cards, but for other kinds of gadgets this is often enough.
If the policy on kernels is changed, there should also be a change in zypper so that at least 2 kernels are kept. That way the user can always fall back to the one they were using.
This would certainly be a good idea, regardless of this discussion's outcome.
Just put/uncomment multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel) in zypp.conf -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org